SpyCloud is on a mission to make the internet a safer place by disrupting the criminal underground. SpyCloud’s solutions thwart cyberattacks and protect more than 4 billion accounts worldwide. Cybersecurity is an exciting, evolving space, and being at the forefront of the fight to disrupt cybercrime makes SpyCloud a special place to work. If you’re driven to align your career with a fantastic mission, look no further!

The ideal candidate possesses a strong understanding of building internal security tooling and data pipelines using public cloud infrastructure, leveraging AI technologies. This role will be within SpyCloud Labs, SpyCloud’s in-house Security Research team, and focus on building automation and other internal tooling to facilitate the collection of recaptured third-party breach and malware data. This is a full-time remote role supporting a hybrid workforce.

What You'll Do:

Design, implement, and maintain internal tooling for acquiring and parsing recaptured underground data.
Build and deploy cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code technologies.
Build and deploy automated CI/CD pipelines to test and deploy tooling and infrastructure.
Collaborate directly with the research team to support the targeting and collection of new data sources.
Be the subject matter expert on Security Research Engineering and the data acquisition process.
Leverage modern AI and LLM-based tooling to streamline development and collection workflows.
Constantly and independently work to identify improvements and automation opportunities in the recaptured data workflow and ETL pipelines.
Participate in security research including investigation of threat actors, malware, and other critical research in support of SpyCloud’s priorities.
Mentor junior security researchers and engineers including providing code review and guidance on efficient code writing and professional development

Requirements:

6+ years experience in a Senior role within cybersecurity engineering.
6+ years of professional software development experience, preferably in the cybersecurity industry
Experience using AI/ML in development workflows.
Experience implementing AI/ML in data processing applications.
Highly skilled with Python. Golang proficiency a plus.
Experience building internal tooling and deploying using Infrastructure as Code technologies (we use Terraform and Ansible).

What You'll Do:

Design, implement, and maintain internal tooling for acquiring and parsing recaptured underground data.
Build and deploy cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code technologies.
Build and deploy automated CI/CD pipelines to test and deploy tooling and infrastructure.
Collaborate directly with the research team to support the targeting and collection of new data sources.
Be the subject matter expert on Security Research Engineering and the data acquisition process.
Leverage modern AI and LLM-based tooling to streamline development and collection workflows.
Constantly and independently work to identify improvements and automation opportunities in the recaptured data workflow and ETL pipelines.
Participate in security research including investigation of threat actors, malware, and other critical research in support of SpyCloud’s priorities.
Mentor junior security researchers and engineers including providing code review and guidance on efficient code writing and professional development

Requirements:

6+ years experience in a Senior role within cybersecurity engineering.
6+ years of professional software development experience, preferably in the cybersecurity industry
Experience using AI/ML in development workflows.
Experience implementing AI/ML in data processing applications.
Highly skilled with Python. Golang proficiency a plus.
Experience building internal tooling and deploying using Infrastructure as Code technologies (we use Terraform and Ansible).

Principal Security Research Engineer

Principal Security Research Engineer

SpyCloud

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